To know that all is well, even if late will come to know it, is at least some gain.

Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.

Opportunity has power over all things.

Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.

A friend in word is never friend of mine.

What men have seen they know. . . .

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.